Natural Resource Manager 1 (PCN 10-1696)

Job Description

The Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mining, Land & Water, is recruiting for a Natural Resource Manager 1 in Juneau.

This position is open to Alaska Residents only. Please check our residency definition to determine if you qualify.

What You Will Be Doing: The Division of Mining, Land & Water is recruiting a Natural Resource Manager 1 for the Southeast Regional Lands Office in Juneau. This position will manage a team of professionals who prepare decisions for public and private applicants that result in the authorization of land uses in Southeast Alaska. While the team primarily adjudicates permits and material sale contracts, they also manage general state land. We are looking for a collaborative and positive team leader with strong interpersonal and management skills and an interest in public land management.

Mission and Values/Culture: This position is housed in the Division of Mining, Land and Water (DMLW), within the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). DMLW’s mission is “to provide for the appropriate use and management of Alaska's state-owned land and water, aiming toward maximum use consistent with the public interest.” The Southeast Regional Office (SERO) Lands Section supports this mission by facilitating the use and development of state lands and ensuring the public's right to access Alaska state lands and resources. The work environment is focused on understanding and learning. The team supports one another, and we work toward collaborative, creative solutions to work challenges.

Benefits of Joining Our Team: You will be joining a dynamic team of diverse individuals and learn about Alaska’s land management, with travel opportunities to Southeast Region communities. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to and influence sound public land-use decision-making, management, and policy development while supporting Alaska's economic growth. This is also an opportunity to learn new programs within DMLW alongside natural resource professionals, with opportunities to lead.

The Working Environment You Can Expect: The position is located on the fourth floor at 400 Willoughby in Downtown Juneau; the location offers free surface or covered parking and provides easy access to all that downtown Juneau has to offer. DMLW-SERO's daily work environment is collaborative and supportive. This position requires an 8-hour daily work schedule. Standard office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM.

We are looking for a candidate who possesses the following position-specific competencies.

• Supervision: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments; sets task priorities; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance; ensures that staff are appropriately selected, utilized, and developed, and that they are treated in a fair and equitable manner. Assignments include the authority and responsibility to recommend or independently take action to employ (i.e., appoint, transfer, promote), discipline or discharge, or adjudicate grievances of direct reports.
• Manages and Organizes Information: Identifies needs; gathers, organizes, and maintains information; determines its importance and accuracy; and communicates it through a variety of methods.
• Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

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Minimum Qualifications

Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications. Please ensure your application (through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Competency Description The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations rather than specific tasks and serve only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to meet the competency successfully, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options for how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Minimum Qualifications Any combination of education and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in:

• Accountability: Holds self and others accountable for measurable high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results. Determines objectives, sets priorities, and delegates work. Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions. Complies with established control systems and rules.
• Administration and Management: Knowledge of planning, coordination, and execution of business functions, resource allocation, and production.
• Decision Making: Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Influencing/Negotiating: Persuades others; builds consensus through give and take; gains cooperation from others to obtain information and accomplish goals.

equivalent to those typically gained by: Education in a natural resource field, law, public administration, planning or economics and/or progressively responsible professional experience in natural resource management.

Definitions: “Competencies” means a combination of interrelated knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that enable a person to act effectively in a job or situation.

“Professional experience” means work that is creative, analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range and depth of specialized knowledge of the profession's principles, concepts, theories, and practices; and is performed with the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment.

“Progressively responsible” means indicating growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibility.

“Qualified” means is assessed to credibly possess the competencies needed to learn the job in a reasonable period.

“Training” and “education” in this guidance are synonyms for the process of acquiring knowledge and skills through instruction. It includes instruction through formal and informal methods (such as classroom, online, self-study, and on-the-job), from accredited and unaccredited sources, and long-duration (such as a post-secondary degree) and short-duration (such as a seminar) programs.

“Typically gained by” means the prevalent, usual method of gaining the competencies expected for entry into the job.

Special Note: For purposes of the minimum qualifications, natural resource management is defined as the management of the land, water, mineral, forest, oil, gas, agricultural, archaeological, natural and cultural history, park, and related surface and subsurface resources. Experience or education in natural resource management means involvement in the above resources exclusively. Those with experience or education in managing these resources may specialize in different management functions (for example, planning, regulation, research or title). All of this experience is applicable to the natural resource management definition. Some positions may require education in a particular area of natural resource management or specific technical knowledge and training gained through specialized education or progressively greater responsibilities at the lower levels of the series.

Additional Required Information

** Please read the information below carefully. **

If invited to interview, please bring the following materials. Failure to do so may result in loss of consideration. Required documents include:

• Cover letter – see instructions below.
• Resume detailing work experience and education relevant to the position.
• Three professional references with contact info (name, phone, email). Include at least one current or former supervisor as a reference.
• University transcripts (if relying on education to demonstrate competencies).

SPECIAL NOTICES

• Occasional travel for field work, 2-3 times per year; may involve travel via floatplane and/or boat to remote locations.

Application Notice You can ONLY apply for this position through the Workplace Alaska website or by submitting a paper application. Instructions for applying are available on the Workplace Alaska How to Apply webpage. We must receive your application by 5:00 p.m. Alaska Standard Time on the closing date.

Cover Letter If invited to an interview, you will be required to provide a cover letter. It should be two to three paragraphs (no longer than one page) and describe your interest in the position as well as how your knowledge and experience demonstrate your ability to perform the duties of the position.

Supplemental Questions For your application to be evaluated, you must answer the Supplemental Questions. The State of Alaska (SOA) uses four proficiency levels to measure and describe an applicant’s competence in applying specific behaviors, knowledge, skills, and abilities to accomplish a specific task. The four proficiency levels are Mastery, Fluency, Literacy, and Discovery. You must rate your proficiency level for each competency listed in the supplemental questions.

Education If post-secondary education is required to meet the minimum qualifications, you must fill out the Education section of the application. If you have not yet obtained a degree, please indicate the units you have completed. Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials if used to meet the minimum qualifications for a position.

Special Instructions for Foreign Education Education completed at foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the minimum qualifications listed above. If using this education to meet minimum qualification requirements, you must demonstrate that the credentials have been submitted to a private organization specializing in interpreting foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed at least equivalent to that gained in standard U.S. education programs. Alternatively, an accredited U.S. post-secondary institution must report that the other institution's transcript is given full value or that full value is recognized in relevant subject areas aligned with the post-secondary institution's curricula. You must provide this evidence when applying.

Work Experience If using work experience not already documented in your application, also provide the employer’s name, job title, employment dates, and whether full-time or part-time. Applications will be reviewed to determine whether the responses are supported and whether the minimum qualifications are met. If they are not, the applicant may not advance to the recruitment interview and selection phase.

Note: Attaching a resume does not substitute for completing the application in full. Noting "see resume" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination that your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.

Bargaining Unit If you are a current state employee, please indicate the union to which you belong at the time of application. Do not complete this question if you are not a current state employee.

Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

EEO STATEMENT The State of Alaska complies with Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Individuals with disabilities who require accommodation, auxiliary aids or services, or alternative communication formats should call 1-800-587-0430 or (907) 465-4095 in Juneau or TTY: Alaska Relay 711 or 1-800-770-8973 or correspond with the Division of Personnel & Labor Relations at P.O. Box 110201, Juneau, AK 99811-0201. The State of Alaska is an equal opportunity employer.

Contact Information

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For specific information about this position, please get in touch with the hiring manager at the following:

Kaitlyn Raffier Natural Resource Manager 3 Phone: 907-465-3406 Email: [email protected]